A Space at Barangaroo

Posted on September 30, 2023 by Stupidity Hole

Another photo at Barangaroo. I’m not sure what I was trying to capture with this one. I think I was mainly just looking at the view and tried to capture space around the water without any purpose beyond that.

I hope you enjoy.

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Sunset at Barangaroo

Posted on September 29, 2023 by Stupidity Hole

I don’t know why I chose to photograph this scene from the position that I did. It doesn’t quite make for a photo as strong as it could have been. That said, I like the contrast in light levels and how everything feels. There’s something kind of off about the photo, I think.

I hope you enjoy.

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1302: Rather Write About Nothing

Posted on September 29, 2023 by Stupidity Hole

Doing a bit of the old racing as I’m waiting for a timer to go off as my food boils in this fine morning of mornings. I have nothing to write about; I have nothing to go off but today is already a busy day and so I’m shoving this in here before work starts as I want to get things done.

Sometimes I wonder why I keep on racing when I know I’ll be ending this blog soon enough. Sometimes I wonder if now is the right stopping point and it isn’t, even if I want to right now as there are still things I want to get out of the way and “achieve” before I call it a day. Of course it doesn’t mean I have to keep on going right now but I want to keep on going right now, even if I don’t want to, if that makes sense.

So now I’m writing about this but I’d much rather write about how I’ve got nothing to write about and that would be okay. That would be fine and so… yeah. So you get the idea.

Anyway, nothing to write about and I’m wondering as to where this will all go. I’m hoping I beat the timer that is waiting to go off. At this point I don’t think I will. I know I’m still early into this, but I have a suspicion that something will cause me to slow down and then that will be that and I’ll just have to keep on writing. I mean, I won’t have to, but the timer will go off and I’ll keep on writing anyway as the food won’t be too boiled anyway.

At what point am I up to right now? I think there is some sort of realisation and giving leeway to despair that I need to cover. After I’ve done that I can then put forward the idea of a rising up from whatever low I’ve sunk to and then when I’ve done that the future remains uncertain, but there is a confidence and you get the idea. However, I need to make sure I space it all out.

Alright, I think I’ve got it now. So yeah, I don’t know how I should approach the rest of this bit of writing and so I’m caught in a web of deceit and disdain for the self and all that other stuff. It is a bad place to be in. However, something is coming toward me and so I think I can see what it is. I think I know what it is. I think I can rise above this and keep on going.

There is a sense of hope that reaches out and now I see what it is that I should be covering. It was always there but I blinded myself to possibility and so now, in seeing this, I can step forward. I don’t know where it will take me, but I will continue.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 05:26:67

This one was fun in parts and annoying in others. I’m not sure why.

Written at home.

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ConcernedApe: Dreamscape

Posted on September 28, 2023 by Stupidity Hole

Five listens for this one.
The song is slightly over a minute long. When I came to the end of the first listen I saw what I wrote and didn’t feel it was enough. There’s not much to the piece but there is a lot that you could say.

I wasn’t trying to say a lot but I was trying to say what I felt was enough and I think I got there, though this is a bit jumbled. Still, I think that I covered the song well enough.

ConcernedApe’s “Dreamscape” is from Stardew Valley’s soundtrack, Stardew Valley OST.

I hope you enjoy.

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Low wisps here and there, deepening, low, faint. A strike of percussion and it starts again with an addition that carefully and calmly plays over the wisps. It echoes into the drift and soon something else joins and rings and echoes here and there. This new sound is dulled and careful and quiet, and all of it is soft.

There is a sense of peace to this and also a lack of weirdness, but it’s pleasant enough. It is simple and straightforward and it keeps a sense of space whilst something more like wind, or something akin to the idea of atmosphere stays quite under everything.

Gently the sounds move along and they stay as such. They drift and float, seemingly aimlessly but also focused, and they all suddenly stop in a natural manner at the song’s end.

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Reflections of Lights

Posted on September 27, 2023 by Stupidity Hole

More city stuff.
I took this mostly because I was interested in the reflection.
Here it sort of appears as a mess.  It’s ordered in a sense, but it just seems cluttered and messy, all the lights and the reflections and all that.

This is my submission into Leanne Cole‘s “Monochrome Madness” for this week. Participating is pretty straightforward and something I recommend. If you do, then include the tag “monochrome-madness” in your post. If not participating, then at the least check out Leanne’s photography as well as what other people submit.

A lot of what people are submitting will likely end up here.

I hope you enjoy.

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ConcernedApe: Stardew Valley Overture

Posted on September 27, 2023 by Stupidity Hole

One listen for this one.
I’ve been meaning to write all day and haven’t gotten around to it until now. Had to force myself a bit. Sad sort of day but won’t get into that too much.

I went into this wanting to see what would come out. Didn’t expect much and didn’t get much, but I think I said enough. Sort of described the song, sort of didn’t.

ConcernedApe’s “Stardew Valley Overture” is from Stardew Valley’s soundtrack, Stardew Valley OST.

I hope you enjoy.

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Gentle the sound rises. It is quiet, and full, and it is waking up, but it remains calm. It remains relaxed and gentle and drifting. Woodwind comes in and it floats along and there’s now a greater range but it keeps the simplicity. It remains small.

Beat starts pounding away steadily, as does another bit of percussion that sounds like a drop, but it still is low. It still is relaxed. There is no need for a burst of energy here; it’s just enough to keep change and growth, and it keeps going when there’s a little more space for something a little lower and softer, and perhaps a moment for reflection.

The beat picks up a little more but the smallness remains. It is sweeping and and shimmering and gentle, and all kinds of pleasant. It is welcoming and it keeps things easy, and it soon wraps up as the song ends.

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ConcernedApe: Night Market

Posted on September 26, 2023 by Stupidity Hole

Two listens for this one.
The second listen was some partial editing and expansion as I thought I wrote more than I did.

I don’t feel I said enough here, but it’s just about all that I’m currently capable of, I think.

ConcernedApe’s “Night Market” is from Stardew Valley’s soundtrack, Stardew Valley OST.

I hope you enjoy.

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Something like waves among creaking carries under a light strumming. Soon joined by some bright percussion, and brief strings and woodwind, and there are contrasts in presence but it all seems quite gentle and slow.

A shift and all seems quieter, but only just. It’s a moment for space and smallness as the percussion moves a little faster, darting about with a smooth motion. Then the sounds come forward once more. They move with precision and carry some sort of mystery to them, and low joy. They move and the waves keep lapping, and soon the sounds find their moment to stop on and the song ends.

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1301: Day Thrown Away

Posted on September 26, 2023 by Stupidity Hole

It’s one of those days where I have to stop telling myself I’m going to write and just start writing. Ergo, it is one of those days where it is every day that I have, albeit now I’ve less on an excuse as it is a day off, also known as a day away from the work, also known as the day does not exist.

How do I operate within the confines of a day that is not here? How do I move through a day that does not exist? Have I slipped into some sort of dimension where the refuse of the reality in which I exist is tossed aside so as to ensure consistency with how everything runs? Have I careened into the wrong pocket?

What do I do know? I don’t know. I don’t care. I’ve just got to write this and find a way out of the day after this. If the day is on some sort of Möbius loop then perhaps I’m a bit screwed, but of course I can just jump really high and then go somewhere else, assuming there is even somewhere else to go.

What if this really is all there is and the same day is repeating but I keep getting older? I don’t want to be stuck here. I want to be over there where it seems more exciting. That’s where I want to be but I don’t know if that is a place where I can be. Perhaps I cannot be there. Perhaps I only can exist here in this day thrown away and so the moment I leave is the moment I cease to exist and so within this odd prison I must remain. I must remain on the loop and in remaining on the loop I have no choice but to grow old here whilst nothing changes. It is a bit of a shame of an existence, but perhaps this is for what I am destined.

Pretty amazing that some things remain constantly available to me, but I don’t have much more to add other than what I’ve already said and so I don’t know what else to say. What else do I say? I just need to keep on writing and then work out what the confines are. Once I work those out I’ll be able to know for sure if I truly am stuck here or if I am not. I’ll be able to know if I’m just rambling into a space that is so full of rambling that there is no telling where the ramble goes. The worlds are all cluttered together and there is no telling of what it is that I am actually saying, and so… yeah.

I have to keep telling myself to finish this and stop pausing as the clock is ticking away and that is an issue if I am to get this done. Therefore I need to get this finished because if I don’t… well, it won’t matter.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 06:06:63

Happy with the time. The writing is fine up until a point. I think I started stretching too much and this starts to drag toward the end.

Written at home.

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Down Toward a Curve

Posted on September 25, 2023 by Stupidity Hole

This bit of fire trail is the same as seen in this photo. The gradient is a bit more apparent here, but still not as much as it should be, I think.

I hope you enjoy.

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Confetti Over the Crowd

Posted on September 24, 2023 by Stupidity Hole

During one of the recent nightclub photo jobs I did I was quite fortunate in getting this photo. I was having issues with the flash staying on so I went to the quietest room of the venue which was the balcony. I needed to hear if the mechanisms were working as I fiddled with the batteries and I couldn’t hear it whilst I was among the crowds.

The flash decided to start working again of its own accord and so I took a few photos from the balcony. After a minute, maybe a few minutes I heard something that made me think there was going to be some stage smoke shot out from the stage. I wanted a photo of stage smoke with the mirror ball as I thought it’d make a good photo and this was brought on by being in the crowd a bit earlier when the first bit of stage smoke was shot out from the stage.

I got into position and started snapping away when it seemed like the smoke was going to come out and it did, along with a bunch of confetti which I wasn’t expecting. The below result was really lucky. I was pretty happy to get the photo and whilst I hope I’ll do better at some point, I’m still happy with this one.

This is my submission into the two hundred-and-sixty-eighth Lens-Artists Photo Challenge. The theme for this one is “Tell Us Why“.

The host of the Lens-Artists challenges cycles weekly between the following people:

Week 1 – Tina

Week 2 – Patti

Week 3 – Ann-Christine aka Leya

Week 4 – Amy

Week 5 – John Steiner

Week 6 – Sofia Alves

Week 7 – Anne Sandler

Week 8 – Donna

Week 9 – Guest host

Tina is curating this one. The next is curated by Patti.

I recommend participating in the challenges as they provide a fun way to interpret theme. If not participating, then at least you should still check out what others of the Lens-Artists community are submitting.

I hope you enjoy.

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